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" No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. "
Henry Kissinger
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" The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop. "
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